Moray Henderson (ICT) wrote:
>> From: Török Edwin [mailto:edwinto...@gmail.com]
>>>> Try using <a href="..."> for the URL.
>>>>
>>> Is that a requirement? If so we should get the spammers on board because
>> some of
>>> them may not know this :).
>> No, there are more places from where URLs can be extracted, but "<a
>> href" is one that must work.
> 
> With modern email clients "helpfully" presenting text that looks like a URL 
> as a real URL at the client end, SafeBrowsing really ought to check the plain 
> text, not just within html tags.  http://pastebin.com/m13232c54 may be just 
> plain text when transmitted and scanned, but it's an "<a href>" by the time I 
> read it: underlined, blue, and turns my cursor to a pointy finger with a 
> pop-up box saying "Click to follow link".

I don't imagine the world's premier spammers are sitting at their laptop in 
their shorts sending out thousands of spams with Thunderbird. There are purpose 
built products for this and can format the mail any way they wish.

dp
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